Play On Podcasts

Play On Podcasts are epic audio adventures reimagining timeless tales, featuring original music composition and the voices of extraordinarily gifted artists. This is where Theatre meets Podcast, combining the modern-day audio phenomenon with the power of live performance.

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Bonus Content Re-Air - Mfoniso Udofia
Mfoniso Udofia digs into her brutal translation of OTHELLO, as well as her other works.
62 min
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Shrew! - Bonus Content Episode 2 - Actors Susan...
“I like them better in Shrew!” Allen Gilmore and Susannah Rogers compare notes on playing Kate and Petruchio in “The Taming of the Shrew” and “Shrew!”
43 min
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Full Play - Shrew!
Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, Shrew!, in its entirety.
139 min
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Shrew! - Episode 6 - It Was All Going So Great
Once all is finally revealed and the marriages are made, Katherine finds the words to describe the meaning of true love.
27 min
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Shrew! - Episode 5 - You Can Leave Them Open
Katherine and Petruchio cement their bond as Lucentio rushes to marry Bianca before his father Vincenzio can stop them.
26 min
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Shrew! - Episode 4 - Bring The Bridal Litter!
Petruchio plays a series of practical jokes on Katherine to win her affection.
30 min
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Shrew! - Episode 3 - Is There No New Thing?
Petruchio convinces Katherine to leave her father’s home with him as Bianca’s suitors conspire to win her hand.
26 min
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Shrew! - Episode 2 - To Woo The Shrew
Petruchio, vows to win Katherine’s affections as the other suitors go to absurd lengths for Bianca.
23 min
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Shrew! - Episode 1 - Your Wig Slips
A mysterious woman starts a page one re-write of a sexist play her friend Will hasn’t been able to fix.
23 min
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Shrew! - Bonus Content Episode 1 - Writer Amy F...
“She’s possibly the worst written character in all of dramatic history.” Amy Freed on why she re-wrote Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, with director Art Manke.
46 min
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Introducing...Shrew!
Written by Amy Freed in response to Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, hear how one of America’s leading contemporary writers brings an out-moded classic up to date. Featuring an outstanding ensemble of accomplished stage and screen actors, with original music composition and sound design by Lindsay Jones. Directed by Art Manke.
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As You Like It - Bonus Content Episode 4 - Acto...
“He just goes for it!”: Andy Grotelueschen describes how Touchstone inspires us to take chances in life, how a teacher in Iowa inspired him to pursue acting, and why it’s so much easier to be funny on Broadway.
43 min
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As You Like It - Bonus Content Episode 3 - Acto...
“She speaks her mind.” Korean-American actor and lead singer of the rock group Kiss the Tiger, Meghan Kreidler opens up about her experiences playing Rosalind in “As You Like It”, being a woman in the world of rock ’n’ roll, her tumultuous relationship with Shakespeare and her love of lyricism.
57 min
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As You Like It - Bonus Content Episode 2 - Dire...
“What does it mean to be a free spirit?” Director Kim Martin Cotten and Radio Play Writer Catherine Eaton discuss the vision and meaning behind the Play On Podcast series adaptation of “As You Like It”.
53 min
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As You Like It - Bonus Content Episode 1 - Writ...
“You cannot skip steps”: David Ivers on the process of acting, directing, writing and translating his way through a career in the arts on a relentless search for clarity.
51 min
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Introducing...Curious Matter Anthology
Curious Matter Anthology is a multi-award-winning fully immersive fiction podcast. It's a bridge between past and present, a time machine that takes listeners back to the golden era of pulp fiction, and then catapults them back into the future. It's an ode to an era of science fiction, whose stories have influenced some of the greatest filmmakers of our time, and it's a tribute to the largely unrecognized authors who penned these tales.
37 min
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Julius Caesar - Bonus Content - Actor Glenn Dav...
“The goal is to challenge folks.” Glenn Davis reflects on his work as an actor, producer, and Artistic Director of Chicago’s famed Steppenwolf Theater. (Is it possible Marc Antony might just be too good a person?)
51 min
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Julius Caesar - Bonus Content - Actor Charlique...
“Who am I called to be?” Visionary artist and producer Charlique C. Rolle expounds on her efforts to love recklessly, build faithfully, and create fearlessly.
54 min
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Houses on the Moon's DE NOVO: Bonus Interview
“We’re going to have to stay informed and fight back”: Playwright Jeffrey Solomon and actress Zuleyma Guevarra discuss the making of DeNovo, what leads to mass migration, why it’s our responsibility as U.S. Citizens to see people as human beings and what we can do to help refugees who are on the brink of being deported to death.
43 min
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Introducing...Houses on the Moon's DE NOVO
New York based not-for-profit theater company Houses on the Moon, and playwright Jeffrey Solomon creates acclaimed documentary plays. DE NOVO recounts the life and death of a Guatemalan teenager, Edgar Chocoy, who was deported after a failed asylum bid in the USA and murdered by the very group he testified would execute him were he to be returned to that country.
24 min
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Julius Caesar - Bonus Content - Actor Michael P...
“Whatever you do well, it contributes” - Michael Potts on what he does well, from Shakespeare to August Wilson, and how playing the long game got him where he is today. (With fond remembrances of Chadwick Boseman).
53 min
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Julius Caesar - Bonus Content - Director Harry ...
“The themes remain the same.” Actor / Director Harry Lennix expounds on the themes of friendship, politics, religion, the evolution of Black Nationalism, what it takes to be a successful revolutionary and why Julius Caesar may be the greatest person to have ever lived.
53 min
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Introducing...Divorce Ranch
Crooked cops, runaways, and divorcees collide in a female-forward, "west-of-center" take on the classic noir.
24 min
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Full Play - Julius Caesar
Next Chapter Podcasts presents the complete Play On Podcast series, JULIUS CAESAR, in its entirety.
156 min
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Julius Caesar - Episode 7 - The Noblest Roman o...
The Conspirators meet their end at Philippi.
26 min